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Vienna, Europe
Joined April 2019
Its literally the worst rating system ever and like 5% of people understand it.
Honestly one of the best, simplest quality of life things about living in Europe is that all the food in the grocery store has a healthiness rating. It’s just so simple and easy
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Why is there a surface parking lot in lower manhattan.
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The fact that the area around MetLife stadium doesn’t look like Wembley park in London is a gigantic policy failure. Wembley is btw how you should do stadium developments
BREAKING: The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. MetLife Stadium was chosen over SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
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a country full of nazis, nothing changed in the past 80 years, only salvagable place are the cities
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Italians when they might actually grow the economy
Italian beaches private establishments - which control 70% of Italy’s shore - announced a possible beach umbrella “strike” threatening to close all the famous seaside locations if the government doesn’t act against the national (and EU) rulings that is forcing them to lose their
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@_night_brain__ If you are gonna have parking in that area I cant fathom how the price of land justifies this instead of a multilevel parking garage either above or below ground instead.
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Amazing map showing what parts of Vienna can be considered a 15 minute city and what parts not
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@SamuelP99483470 Deah no shit, the thing is that it is not that easy to understand, it ahould be easy to understand when you see it for the first time.
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@SamuelP99483470 Because its actually not that simple, because each food category gets its own category, its not the score in the category food overall.
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Its crazy how 90% of people have no idea how stocks work.
I’m no economist, but Netflix lost $18 billion in value yesterday, enough to fund every ask the writers and actors made for 36 years
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How far you get by train from Vienna in a certain time in one hour fragments right now(left) vs in 2040(right)
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I honestly love that long term Austrian rail planning is building essentially Northeast Corridor style 4 track High speed lines between cities with a population of 2 million, 300k, 200k and 150k. I love my stupid little ambitious rail nation
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Vienna and Berlin look eagerly similar if you compare the results of the last election both cities had. small conservative center, large green/socdem donut around that where city is dense. and then in the western outskirts conservatives and in the eastern outskirts the far right
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It lost.
Now that the US election is over, we can focus on the actual important vote happening in Salzburg austria. Where voters are deciding on wether or not to build the S Link (a Stadtbahn/light rail tunnel from the Hauptbahnhof through the city)
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Before and after in Vienna (Treustraße corner of wallensteinstraße). Greenery will be planted in spring
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@_jay_oor the far right got basically the same vote share 25 years ago, thats just how austria is.
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Hot take: single family homes next to the European Parliament are probably not the best land use
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East germans watching this
Next Wednesday, the party leaders of the AfD and BSW, Alice Weidel and Sahra Wagenknecht, will meet for the first time in a two-way debate live on German television.
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I honestly love how the city of London builds skyscrapers. Something about the mix of the new tall, shorter old buildings and tight streets is just doing it for me. I absolutely love it
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Here you can nicely see that tram switches are heated in Vienna!
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I FUCKING HATE FARMERS!!!!
"Poland will certainly not agree to Ukraine joining the EU" if restrictions are not placed on its agricultural products, says Poland's agriculture minister. "In current conditions, Polish agriculture would never win against Ukrainian agriculture"
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The people of Vienna yearn for open supermarkets on sundays!!!!.(This one is one of the only open ones because its in a train station where its legal to be open on a sunday)
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I dont really like that new large developments often dont use Blockrandbebauung and instead often use (semi)detached buildings. One of the few countries in Europe (maybe the world) that still somewhat uses it is Czechia, and I dont really know why? (new district in prague below)
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@lemechantneolib all the european countries without a minimum wage have very strong unions that effectively implement a minimum wage for every sector of the economy.
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@40PercentGerman An all out war happens any time these things come up and what their name is
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Now that the US election is over, we can focus on the actual important vote happening in Salzburg austria. Where voters are deciding on wether or not to build the S Link (a Stadtbahn/light rail tunnel from the Hauptbahnhof through the city)
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WHERE MY VIENNA-BRATISLAVA TRAM LINE LOVERS AT??🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Dudes will be like “I miss her” and it’s a 19th century interurban railway.
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Damn
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The median income in the united states in 2023 is 48 060 $. That means at least half of ALL workers in the united states earn that or more.
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Are the US unis just stupid? It works perfectly fine in my uni.
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this is how the surroundings of st stephans cathedral in Vienna should look, not like this
I find it extremely cool how there is a gothic cathedral in the middle of New York City
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Where my spanish solution appreciators at!?
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@LilFreeThinker @g_europaeus @SocDane Most eastern european countries are also much richer and healthier tho, which is more important.
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You can watch the testing happening in karlsplatz station rn
Tomorrow the public transit Operator in Vienna will announce when the currently closed U2 section between schottentor and karlsplatz will open again. it was reconstructed so the future U5 can run autonomously on it, so it was renovated and plattform screen doors were added
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I know people like to defend this and its definitely better than nothing, but the reality is this is far from a competitive train.If germany would get its act together and actually build new high speed lines this could easily take 5-6 hours making it at least a little competitive.
The first direct high-speed train connection between Berlin and Paris launched today. Passengers can now travel between the German and French capitals in roughly eight hours, with ticket prices starting at €59.99.
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Dawg wth is my father sending in the family groupchat?????
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@Eric_Erins Because a ton of cities are just car infrastructure, which isnt very nice to be around in general.
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Ernsthafte frage: Warum gibts am neuen Markt noch Parkplätze? Ich dachte genau deshalb wurde die riesige Parkgarage hier gebaut
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Feel like americans would die if they try a good döner kebab.
A publisher in the US tried the sandwich, which is sold for $27 in New York and is known for its abundance of ingredients….
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First dutch style bicycle street being constructed in Vienna
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A few days ago the Austrian Railways (ÖBB) presented their plan for the target network of the railway system of 2040 with a cost of roughly26 billion Euros. Everything red is newly planned construction/upgrades of exisiting lines. I'll talk about the highlights in this thread 1/6
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@_jay_oor there is no issue, the fact that some people have been gaslight by russia or others or are just nazis is exactly the reason they get that vote in austria since forever.
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Czechia is preparing to build a 24,7 km long railway tunnel at a cost of roughly 2 billion dollars that will reduce travel time between Prague and Pilsen by 22 minutes. Top speed of 200 km/h in the tunnel.Prague-Pilsen will take 45 min with all upgrades. Construction: 2028-2042
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From this map you could also come to the conclusion that spain is incredibly mountainous like the alps.
Population density in Europe. Spain is shockingly empty
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@SamuelP99483470 Yeah, exactly not sl simple any more, because nobody puts in the effort to know the categories.
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@rieszspieces And those 3% get absurd amounts of money of both governments as well, most entitled sector in the wolrd.
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New York City is one of the only US cities that is comparable to european cities in how safe it is, the mismatch between perception and actual reality is insane.
it’s so ridiculous how some politicians keep on trying to craft this narrative that New York is a dangerous, out of control city. its actually extremely safe, beautiful and lively!
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This is how European cities should look like
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Today I celebrate the death of the fascist rat by the name of Deng Xiaoping, Deng destroyed socialism in the Peoples Republic of China. He is dead but his type of Hitlerite revisionism is unfortunately still present
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If anyone wonders why a European military is necessary, there you have it.
BREAKING:. The undersea power cable Estlink 2 between Finland and Estonia has been destroyed. The Chinese vessel Xin Xin Tiang was sailing over it when it happened. Xin Xin Tiang is a sister vessel of NewNew Polar which destroyed the undersea gas pipeline Balticconnector in 2023
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salary is probably like 5 dollars tho.
Just started working for a European nonprofit they said I’ll start with 35 days annual leave
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I hate the social democrats in Vienna!!. They regulate that you have to build at least 0,7 parking spaces per 100m^2 pf living space in a new center city quarter thats going to be built in the next decade in the year 2023, how can you be so backward?????.
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a tale of two central business districts:. left the first district of Vienna and right the city of London. Both roughly the same size at 3 km^2. both roughly the same population at 9k vs 16k. but the city of london has 680k workers, while the 1. district in Vienna just has 114k
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Vienna is becoming like Tokyo with how many vending machines are starting to pop up, I just found one thats carved out of the property of a single family home next to a tram stop on the outskirts of the city
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A german farmer complains that he is indeed not rich, while sitting on land worth 2 million euros (thats without any of the farm equipment)
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I want someone to love me as much as gunther loves kosovar coffee.
Vienna coffee ☕️ is getting better with more Kosovo 🇽🇰 citizens joining Austria 🇦🇹 and helping to improve quality of Coffee ☕️ in Vienna
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@kane 2,4 million homes and small businesses were connected as a result already and will literally connect everyone by 2030, for what its worth starlink is nice, but its super incredibly expensive.
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Northern Italy really consists out of a bunch of cities with 50 thousand or more people that nobody ever heard of. I mean what the fuck is a Novara and why do 100k people live there
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No city in North America is going vertical like Toronto is, I love it.
An updated look at development activity in Downtown #Toronto. Across the city, there are over 250,000+ residential units approved and an additional 430,000+ proposed. 🏗️. #Toronto #urbanplanning #transit
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@AsoutouGator @IronicallyinEur Lmao, I live in Vienna, one of the most diverse cities on the continent and it is nothing like that.
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@markasaurus Based based based based based. Sf needs about 50 more of these on the west side.
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First time coming to the platforms of the rebuilt karlsplatz u2 station in Vienna
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2 min frequency and the Platform is still packed
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a few days ago the planning documents for the U5 extension second phase were released so companies can bid for construction of it. Here are the renders of the stations that were included as well. 600+ pages of joy for me
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How foreigners see Austria. Vs. How I see Austria
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For being one of the largest EU cities, in one of the richest countries, Viennese property prices are honestly pretty amazing. You can buy a newly built 2 bedroom for under 500k € which is on a street with a tram line and only 5 minute walk from a metro station in western Vienna
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the average american would die if they looked at european tax rates.
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@arno_shae Why are european leftists always so pro income tax, its literally THE anti worker tax.
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@krystalchantalc If there is parking in manhattan it should basically always be a garage underground or multilevel aboveground, surface lot is just a gigantic waste of space.
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I used to think bicycle streets were way worse than normal bike lanes with actual grade separation, but after riding through Pfeilgasse in Vienna I have honestly changed my mind. With good modal filters they are amazing!
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